'Joggin' Erlong'-Paul Laurence Dunbar-First Edition, 1st Printing-October 1906

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'Joggin' Erlong'-Paul Laurence Dunbar
-First Edition, 1st Printing, 1906
-Dodd Mead & Company
This book shows some wear and tear as shown but is a complete and sturdy edition
He originated the line "I know why the caged bird sings" in an earlier work.
Paul Laurence Dunbar was an early, if not the first, celebrated Black .poet in the US. Born just seven years after the Civil War to formerly enslaved parents he showed intelligence an talent from an early age. Unable to afford a university education: "
He became one of the first influential Black poets in American literature and was internationally acclaimed for his dialect verse in collections such as Majors and Minors (Hadley & Hadley, 1895) and Lyrics of Lowly Life (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1896). The dialect poems constitute only a small portion of Dunbar’s canon, which is replete with novels, short stories, essays, and many poems. In its entirety, Dunbar’s literary body is regarded as an impressive representation of Black life in the turn-of-the-century United States".
This was his last published work. He died after it's publication of tuberculosis at age 33.
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